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1Password for Mac > Windows :(

Cartman
Cartman
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in 1Password 4 for Windows

Was not sure if I should post this but if you don't ask...

1Password for the Mac is beautiful...including the browser extensions and menu bar "mini" equivalent. Is there any hope whatsoever to have the Windows version look the same way?

I have resorted to using 1Password X in Chrome since I can not bear to use the native extension due to the way it looks from a UI perspective. The desktop app, although functional is also not very attractive in my opinion either.

I realize that you might respond that the Mac version needs to look a certain way versus the Windows version due to design elements of their respective OS but I don't agree. Besides, the Windows version does not seem to adhere to Windows design guidelines....except for perhaps the new transparency in 6.8.

Only hoping to get a better product on the PC side. It is rare that I ever envy the Mac version of an application. It almost seams like 1Password is punishing us! ;)

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  • MikeT
    MikeT
    edited December 2017

    Hi @Cartman,

    Thanks for writing in.

    Is there any hope whatsoever to have the Windows version look the same way?

    Absolutely, there is hope to making it as pretty as the macOS version (as long as it fits Windows style) but it takes a lot of time. Unlike Microsoft, a lot of pretty stuff you see is provided or made easy by Apple with their solidly designed APIs and a very consistent human design guidelines that is updated by Apple often.

    For us to replicate it on Windows, we have to handcraft it ourselves and that takes a lot of time. Right now, our focus is to bringing the feature parity first, having a pretty design isn't useful if there are no features behind it.

    Also of note, 1Password 6 is relatively a new codebase for us. Check out what it looks like last year when we first released 1Password 6.0:

    We are going to keep iterating on our design in each update, there is still a lot of improvements we can do but we have to balance between having features and improving designs.

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